Almost nine million children under 5 years of age die every year. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading cause of under-five mortality in developing countries. About one out of five deaths is caused by diarrhea. In this paper, we use the newly available data set District Level Household...

Using data from a representative sample from India, we test the empirical validity of Quantity Quality trade-off model of Becker and Lewis (1973). To address the endogeneity arising from the joint determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument the family size by sex...

Public-private partnerships in the domain of public service delivery have become hallmark ever since India opened its economy to the global market. This has been the case particularly with health services, both in urban and rural areas. India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh is implementing...

Natural disasters have become more common in recent years, highlighting the importance of disaster risk management and mitigation. The degree of vulnerability of human groups who experience losses as a result of the disaster determines disaster risks. The development process has a considerable...

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...

This study describes the prevalence and drinking patterns of alcohol consumption among adults (aged 15+ years) and explores the association between sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption in Vietnam. A cross-sectional representative survey of 5,200 respondents from 12 provinces was...

Using nationally representative data from India, this study estimates the effect of calorie intake on wages. In order to take into account the heterogeneity and endogeneity in the effect of calorie intake on wages, we apply two stage least square and instrumental variable quantile regression...

In the last decade, the Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) flows have increased almost twenty times and attained shares of thirteen and six percent in the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchanges respectively in the cash segment of the Indian equity market. This raises the issue of...

This paper provides the empirical evidence that the group wide liquidity is a key driver of individual currency liquidity. The liquidity of currencies is tied together more often recently than during 1990s. We also examine the asymmetrical commonality in liquidity, when the dollar index is...